The Three Souls

Chapter 9

Terra shot up in his bed, eyes wide.

That grin was still there, but he shook his head roughly from side to side.

“We will wait.”

He twisted his head roughly to one side, seeing nothing.

“Terra?” a soft voice rang out from the door making him look to that entry way and see his younger sibling standing there with a soft worry look on her gentle face. He rubbed his mane with his hoof and sighed loudly.

“Ya... Ya just a rough night’s sleep I guess,” he commented falling back on his bed. In a matter of moments he could hear Luna walking in slowly and over to his table, looking around it.

“Well we all heard you awake last night and what was happening, and we were kinda worried something had made you upset in a different way than usual,” she commented looking at the armoured chest plate slowly, “Is this what you made? Where the gems from?” she asked.

“From Storm’s home, and yes, Luna, I did. Their called Honour and Duty though I’m not sure what their significance is... there are six others like that, each with a name and propose...”

“Maybe Celestia and I should pop over there and say hi?” she said looking at him curiously, “Though we don’t know the way.”

“I could maybe talk to Storm at some point and see what she says. Is that okay?” he replied getting out of his bed. He looked up at her.

She wasn’t her. She wasn’t the normal deep blue but she was pure black and armoured, and with hat she looked over at him and smiled, seeing sharp dagger like fangs in her smile and feline like eyes instead of her normal gentle and kind eyes. He took a shocked expression and cringed his eyes.

When he opened them again he could see the normal Luna and he shook his head softly from side to side.

“Terra? You okay?” she asked looking at him worried. He nodded a moment later, looking at her with a worried smile.

“Y-Ya, I’ll be back in a while I’m gonna go get Storm and I’ll be back okay?” he said floating over his wings and latching them onto his back. Before she could speak again he raced off.

He flew longer then he should have, the image still in his head, portraying Luna as a monster in so many ways. That black of her coat seemed to leak off her, the fangs almost vampiric. He could still see those eyes that cut blackness to find the darkest of desires. Each was more vile then the other, with the wings seemingly twisting the energy of the blackness around them, filling the room with dark energies.

He couldn’t shake the image of her, and was going to tell Storm what he saw.

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“Baaaaaahahahahaha!” she cried out laughing incredibly hard at the idea of Luna being evil or dark, “Luna. Our little tiny and ever forgiving Luna? This dark and mysterious monster?”

“You’re not helping me in anyway Storm...” Terra said, feeling his ears drop down in embarrassment, “I mean... I saw it right?”

“No offence Terra but that just absurd in so many ways it’s just incredibly funny,” she said smiling, walking with him down a short path and stretching out at the sun above, “Anyway, what is it that you wanted to ask me?”

“Well I wanted to ask you if Luna and Celestia could come see the gems?” he asked, putting his thoughts of Luna away, believing them absurd and wrong in anyway. Storm thought for a long moment before leaping off the cliffs edge and diving away from him. He groaned and followed suit, diving right after her, following through a twisting and ragged canyon below where they were just standing. He began to close the gap on her, keeping close and politely above her, taking the wider portion of the canyon.

“I guess they could. Heck maybe even Alexander, Amor and Athenus could come too, see if the gems respond to them too?” she suggested, smiling up at him as Terra glanced down at her. He nodded and pulled up, going to leave the canyon as it got tighter. He flew just above it, watching as the mare weaved in and out of the canyons dangerous turns, just smiling at how graceful she was in her element. He dove to rejoin her as the canyon widened back up and flew alongside her gentle.

“Do you think any will?” he asked her, fly steadily next to her. She nodded and looked at him.

“I think Amor and Athenus will get one, but...” she started, speaking slowly as she lead to the ‘but,’ eye rolling up and away from him.

“But?” he replied staring at her, making her look at him and give a false smile.

“I don’t know about Alexander, since there’s the possibility that he might get, well, ignored by elements,” she replied, looking forward, rolling away from him. Terra rolls closer to her looking at her worried at the thought of Alexander getting ignored.

“Why do you say that?” Terra asked, rolling over her and flying on her right side now. She followed him giving him a stare that could make anyone know the reason, “Seriously. Why?”

“Alexander is a greedy self absorbed flank-ho-” she started, making Terra flinch with every flustering name she could describe him as.

“Okay ya but still, he never turns his back on his friends and stands with me back when I couldn’t fly. He never lies and always keeps to his sister making sure she’s safe, even if she is capable on her own,” Terra replied. She sighed and slowed down, heading to a landing spot, Terra right behind her.

As they landed she looked at him and sighed again, “You know you are completely gullible?” He smiled and nodded at her.

“But it’s so much easier to act that way when no one around here really cares!” he said, causing Storm to face-hoof quite roughly, “So tomorrow morning let’s say?”

“Sure. What’s the worse could be the worse-”

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“-that could have happened,” she growled at him looking at the group of five ponies and Discord standing in the doorway.  She stared at him, clearly not impressed, receiving an embarrassed and apologetic look from Terra.

She sighed and invited them in, and the first to speak up was the blind mare herself, Athenus Legum.

“This place seems so nice and gentle. Welcoming path in,” she commented, rubbing her hoof against the floor and smiling, “Worn down by constant taking off and landings, as well as pacing of recent.”

All the group looked at her, as she continued into the home, “The walls, hmmm, hold truth of an importance and delicate love, for the prize within the main chamber,” she walked into the main room, unguided.

“I tho.... I thought she couldn’t see...” Terra said, Luna nodding as well.

Amor just stared as Alexander sighed loudly, “She can’t see and see at the same time. She has this... weird sense like thing. It’s so.... strange I don’t even understand it and we share a link. I never want to understand it either. It’s her little thing after all,” he replied, Terra looking at him with a raised brow, Storm just growling and Celestia and Discord just giggling to themselves in little gitters.

“She’s our seeing eye prophet?” Discord asked, chuckling, “Seeing the scene by being unseen with no seeing sight?”

“Who glances to the walls with blank eyes and forward thought of a third eye?” Celestia asked, giggling alittle.

“I do actually!” Athenus called out from the other way, making the two become silent at their little jokes. Amor sighed and walked forwards, some lichen beginning to grow where she stepped.

“Well at least I understand why we’re here... i think... What are we here for anyway?” she asked stopping and looking back at the group, Luna rushing forward to see what Athenus doing now. Celestia followed smiling, while Alexander laughed whole heartily.

“We are here to see if the elements will take us. I know one will take me!” he exclaimed happily, walking past Amor. She made a small sigh, almost too cute for her, and looked at him as he went by.

“Well... I don’t know but I would like on to choose me I guess,” she said, following him slowly, making more lichen grow where she stepped. Celestia moved quickly going with the group as they entered the main area. Terra looked at Storm and smiled.

“Should I?” he asked grinning, having shown her the guard he made. She nodded and floated it over softly to him sliding it on, then floated up a chained necklace around her neck and smiled at him.

“You look incredibly dangerous. It really doesn’t suit you,” she said happily walking past him. He didn’t reply having a silly grin on his face. He was thinking that the beauty didn’t suit her style of life.